this appeared last week in MoneyControl…. Investment in turbulent times! The market has gone nowhere in the past 4 years. When your financial planner / relationship manager / advisor told you that equities are for the long run he/she also said ‘long run’ means more than one year, correct? Well you invested when the index […]

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The MCA mandate is out and all companies are in a ‘searching’ mode of how to comply with the mandate. Predominantly there are 2 options – buy software, learn the skill and do the tagging yourself, or give your annual return to a ‘conversion’ specialist. The conversion specialist will convert it for you and give […]

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Here is a query that I got from a person whom I know from my blog….(I do not know her except through emails, but she is a very smart professional). Here is the query “Had a visitor from xyz securities yesterday. He wanted me to open a trading account offline.I have a broking account which […]

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There is a bunch of investors with whom I am friends with.  Some of them are real rich and some of them are super rich. Let us say apart from a nice house with a value of about a Million US $, they would have a net-worth ranging from a Million US $ to 10 […]

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No this is not an article of whether you should buy life insurance from a bank or from an agent…it is just leading to an article on MoneyLife. Agents tell me ‘we cannot sell a wrong product to the customer, because we have to go to the same guy again and again, but bank managers […]

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Oh no this is not in the Indian context, but when you use Google to tag some stories…you do hit on some interesting stories. A few days back Balakrishnan had written a page on the Moneylife site why you should buy from a bank relationship manager. I said chuckle, chuckle. Had neither the intent, willingness […]

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Relationship managers never had it so bad! Whatever they do, the client is not happy…and keeps threatening to walk away! Relationship managers have a lot of work to do – and one important job is sales. When they sell…they sell. So they have targets, they must keep talking…and life is really tough.. One important thing […]

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